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As writers, we all suffer writer’s block at one time or another. As people, sometimes we experience an equivalent called human wall. It affects us on all levels: work, personal, familial.

Today, after four days of a severe cold (which I rarely get), I have hit human wall. I cannot function. I cannot think. I have projects coming out of my wazoo, kids screaming and fighting in one ear, phone calls in the other. With each word typed or read, there is a child standing in my face demanding attention or requesting food, preventing me from concentrating. So what do I do?

It has come to my attention that I procrastinate things that I have forethoughts about. I put something on a list. Look at it. Fear the outcome, the time spent, or the unknown…whatever it is…I think about it. As of now, I am erasing the “To Do List” and creating the “Do It Now List.”

With the DIN List, I will not allow myself to THINK. Overthinking stops here. It is useless and it hurts…it doesn’t help. It allows the uncertain to be entertained. It allows us to subconsciously decide to AVOID what it is that needs to be done.

Yes, we HAVE to exercise. It is not a choice. If we lived in the time of the cavemen, we would work off our calories. But, we don’t. We sit for a living. We become slugs for a living.

Just do it. Thanks Nike. They mean don’t think about it. Get it done.

You want chicken tenders for lunch, but you NEED grilled chicken (thanks to Chris Brogan for bringing this to my attention :)). Don’t THINK.

Just eat it. Thanks Weird Al. 🙂 Anyway, food is overrated…we only need it to survive, not to enjoy. Pleasure comes from experiences not taste.

Starting today, throw away your To Do List and consistently work on your Do It Now List and watch your productivity, your health, your accomplishments soar. (Dang you, bald eagle.)

What is on your To Do List that you keep procrastinating? What if you don’t give it a second thought and put it on your Do It Now List? Will you get it done?

Once upon a time, the airwaves were flooded with the next magic pill to make people lose weight. People bought them. People fell for the nonsense…I was one of them.

After many years of riding that roller coaster, it has finally become apparent to the masses that those gimmicks are just that.

So what do you need to achieve?

You need the magic potion that I have for you. Pay careful attention. I am going to give you the recipe that you need to succeed. Not just at weight loss, but at life.

Ready?

Got your pen?

Paper?

Here we go:

You need the following:

Belief

Love

Intention

Vision

Brew those things together and you have the winning combination of ingredients required to make the most of your life.

Belief in yourself. Love of yourself. Soulful intention. And your mind’s eye view of you doing what you do.

That’s it. No pills. No scams. No silly gimmicks. Listening to yourself and loving yourself leads you to success in every aspect of your life. Your body, mind and soul know what you need. All you have to do is listen and obey.

Easy, huh?

If it isn’t, we’ll talk about why it isn’t as easy as it sounds next time.

And in case you are a bald eagle hovering over this site, reading…fitness isn’t about the numbers 🙂

Drop me a line and let me know what key ingredient you are missing from your Success Recipe. Thanks for hanging out and reading my wall…let’s get together on Twitter and Facebook, too!

When we start on a journey, without a destination in mind, we find ourselves lost. Any activity we undertake is that journey. By seeing what we want in our mind’s eye, we see the changes that we need to make so we can make our goals our realities.

Map it out

Just as we would map out our stops and routes on a road trip, we have to map out our writing journeys, our parenting trips, or even our fitness adventures. Imprinting the visual image of our accomplishments imprints our maps in our heads. Carrying this imprint internalizes our intention, as well!

Imprint your vision

When we visualize to materialize, our intentions are internalized and the Law of Attraction is put to work automatically. We know that intentions have to come from the heart, otherwise they are mere words soon forgotten. Setting the image in our minds of our end result and what we need to do to get there makes it second nature. We will then act the way that is necessary to bring us success.

If we want to be successful writers, we have to envision ourselves in all of our glory. We can visualize ourselves in that life and what we are doing, how we are acting, and how we handle our business. The same goes for any occupation or goal. Suppose we want to be super fit and healthy. We have to visualize ourselves as such. We have to see ourselves making decisions that lead to accomplishing that goal.

Live that life

Use those visualizations and imprints to guide your decisions in taking steps toward your goals. If you visualize yourself as a successful entrepreneur, refer to your visualized results and ask yourself is this decision one that your successful self would make? With fitness, we ask ourselves before we delve into that pint of ice cream if it will help achieve our super fit visualization of us.

What are your goals? See yourself living them. How do you act? What do you differently in that image than you do now?

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Come and hang out with me on Twitter and Facebook…let’s achieve our goals together!

The longer we sit in our chairs; the softer we become. The softer our bodies become; the softer our brains become.

The more processed foods we eat; the murkier our thinking becomes.

We deteriorate at a phenomenal rate…why accelerate it?

Take part in the #15minsofexercise hashtag convo or the #10Burpeesat10 and refresh yourself. REnew your mind, your body and your soul. Feel GOOD again.

Exercises needn’t be exhaustive. They needn’t be aggressive. You can do yoga, tai chi, walking, alternate walking/jogging, core exercises, pilates. You name it. You can improve your life and your love 15mins at a time.

We are what we eat and we become what we do. Do what will bring you success and eat what will fuel it.

Much love to you all! Thanks for stopping by my home on the web!

Since I love to talk too much, leave me a comment and let me know what exercise you can do in 15mins that will leave you feeling refreshed and ALIVE. ❤

As writers, we need to move. We have to pry ourselves from the comfort of our laptops and force ourselves to move in order to stay healthy. Since becoming an official “writer,” I have seen my thighs turn to mush. Not a pretty sight. I was once fit and tone (ok, that was BEFORE the kids), but I have gotten even mushier since the winter.

I challenge myself and you to face the challenges with me that come up as we move through the motions of our days struggling to create bodies of work that people want to share with us.

Our projects (be they writing, raising our children, whatever they are) and life, in general, are more fun when we are in the best shape we can be to enjoy them.

Ordering our cosmos is about bringing together all the pieces of our lives into one focus…let’s enjoy our lives and all of their parts by making ourselves healthy and ENJOYING it together!

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